The map is a map of Ecuador that includes the cities of Ecuador. I provided a map of Ecuador because I want you to be familiar with its cities when you are traveling in the country. The next picture shows a small type of leopard that lives in Ecuador’s Amazon Rainforest. The small leopard appears to be calling for someone. The last picture shows a small waterfall that feeds into a stream or river and is surrounded by a seasonal forest in the Amazon.
Here is some helpful information that will help you with the questions.
According to http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20ecuador.htm, “Despite its small area, Ecuador is the eighth most bio-diverse country on Earth. Ecuador has almost 20,000 species of plants, over 1,500 species of birds, more than 840 species of reptiles and amphibians, and 341 species of mammals.”
“Ecuador also has the distinction of having the highest deforestation rate and worst environmental record in South America. Oil exploration, logging, and road building have had a disastrous impact on Ecuador's primary rainforests, which now cover less than 15 percent of the country's land mass.”
“Logging in Western Ecuador (coastal and low Andean) areas is responsible for the loss of 99 percent of the country's rainforest in this region. Historically, after an area has been selectively logged and abandoned, settlers follow logging roads and set up homesteads, slashing and burning the surrounding forest for agriculture and cattle pasture.”
Finish your questions and let’s move onto the next country! Guyana here we come!
